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Detour · Beat 53 · permalink

Bedroom

42:31–43:07 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:3542:35Frame at 42:4942:49Frame at 43:0343:03

Play from 42:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 74–76. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and dark trousers, seen from behind, gripping a window frame visible
  • Roberts (named at t:42:55): woman, lying on a bed, wearing a light-colored robe, with styled hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man grips a window frame or blind from behind. [frame:1]
  • A woman lies on a bed, speaking and gesturing with her hand. [frame:2]
  • The man remains gripping the window frame, unchanged. [frame:3]
Also said
“Why be as sorry, Roberts? You got yourself into this thing. You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.” 42:55 · “Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute being photographed, fingerprinted, and being pushed around by the cops.” 43:02
Seen
window frame or blind [frame:1, frame:3], bed with floral-patterned headboard [frame:2], lamp or vase on bedside table [frame:2], robe [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: guilt and accusation, moral compromise, power dynamics in a private setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, confined framing emphasizing emotional pressure

A man in a white shirt is seen from behind, gripping a window frame or blind, while a woman in a robe lies on a bed speaking. The dialogue suggests a tense confrontation about a past event and a drink offer that was not meant to be accepted.

“I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.” 42:34 · “I didn't want to give you a drink. I wouldn't have offered it.” 42:50 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Detour (1945) at 42:35 (passage 42:31–43:07); US record: No renewal found

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